TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PULASKIAN SEPTEMBER 6, 1918
July 15
I was sure glad to hear from you. Believe me, I am very lonesome this afternoon and was feeling very blue, but I am feeling better now. I received a nice letter from Rowena Kyzer and would like to see her again. I have seen the world: my three years and nine months in China was worth a thousand dollars to me.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Raymond Rudolph Roberts from “somewhere in France” to his cousin Miss Ester Hanyie. Roberts was born in El Paso, Arkansas on February 24, 1895 and died on March 15, 1960. He is buried in the Sixteenth Section Cemetery in Austin, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Private serving in Co. K 4th Inf. During his service he was awarded a Purple Heart. He enlisted on August 27, 1914 and was discharged on May 22, 1919. During World War II he was employed at the Ordnance Plant in Jacksonville, Arkansas. A letter written by his brother William Hiram Roberts is also posted in Pulaski County.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
July 15
I was sure glad to hear from you. Believe me, I am very lonesome this afternoon and was feeling very blue, but I am feeling better now. I received a nice letter from Rowena Kyzer and would like to see her again. I have seen the world: my three years and nine months in China was worth a thousand dollars to me.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Raymond Rudolph Roberts from “somewhere in France” to his cousin Miss Ester Hanyie. Roberts was born in El Paso, Arkansas on February 24, 1895 and died on March 15, 1960. He is buried in the Sixteenth Section Cemetery in Austin, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Private serving in Co. K 4th Inf. During his service he was awarded a Purple Heart. He enlisted on August 27, 1914 and was discharged on May 22, 1919. During World War II he was employed at the Ordnance Plant in Jacksonville, Arkansas. A letter written by his brother William Hiram Roberts is also posted in Pulaski County.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON